Anna Vinnitskaya had her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of six and gave her first concert with an orchestra when she was eight. After studying at the Conservatory of Rostov-on-Don, where she was taught by Sergey Osipenko, she went on to further studies, under Evgeni Koroliov, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she herself became a piano professor in 2009. Anna Vinnitskaya's First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007 launched her international career. She regularly performs as a soloist with leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre d’Ile de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the NDR, SWR, and Berlin radio orchestras, the Münchner Philharmoniker, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, under conductors such as Marek Janowski, Krzysztof Urbañski, Kirill Petrenko, Andris Nelsons, Alan Gilbert en Mirga Gražinytë-Tyla. She has recorded three discs on the Naïve label, which have won two Diapasons d’Or, an ECHO Klassik prize, and a ‘Choc du Mois’ from Classica magazine. In 2015, she moved to Alpha Classics and recorded the Shostakovich concertos with Kremerata Baltica and the wind players of the Staatskapelle Dresden. This season she has been artist in residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie.